When a hive swarms, there are good odds that it will swarm again in a week or two. And once a swarm lands and leaves it's scent there, there is a good chance that another swarm will land in the same location.

When a hive swarms, there are good odds that it will swarm again in a week or two. And once a swarm lands and leaves it's scent there, there is a good chance that another swarm will land in the same location.

Move them in to a full sized box with a seperate base and put a Queen Excluder between the super and the base. You also need to assess why they have re-swarmed too! i'd say they have filled the boxes you put them in... I have a swarm that i caught four weeks ago and she has put out 7 Queen Cells - they will be getting put in a bigger box this weekend and split with the Queen cells (if they're capped by now), some brood and stores put in a nuc

OzBuzz,It would behoove (been waiting a week to use that word :-D) you to take the queen away for the split and leave the cells in the original hive...a "false swarm".

If you take the cells away for a split the mother hive might swarm anyway and wouldn't be able to raise a new queen.

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2 have swarmed now :( They are in full sized boxes. Some with supers, no excluders. One i tried a newspaper combine on and i think one of the colonies absconded. The other was last night and i havent worked out where it came from yet.

I think a big read on swarm control this weekend. My neighbours wont like heaps of swarms :(

Phil are they coming out your hives or are they swarms coming in.suppose to early to tell yet?had a old feller tell me once with swarms he allways used replace queen.as you don't no what you are getting with them.good luck mate

I got kind of lucky this spring. Two weeks before I hived my first pkg of bees, unbeknown to me at the time, a neighbor 4 houses away had a swarm in a tree and called an exterminator to get rid of it. (soooo wished I had known about it.) But the point is, there's either another beekp fairly close by or a feral colony around (live on a small 56 acre lake in the city) and I can now easily claim that any future swarms that land in neighbors' yards aren't necessarily mine.

I did catch one small swarm in August I am sure was mine as it was hanging just 4 feet from my hive in a Yaupon tree.

Question: Does the first swarm from a crowded hive always take the reigning queen with it and leave the supersedure queen(s) to take over? So then an afterswarm would necessarily have a supersedure queen.

Question: Does the first swarm from a crowded hive always take the reigning queen with it and leave the supersedure queen(s) to take over? So then an afterswarm would necessarily have a supersedure queen.

The only keep I know of besides myself is the neighbour 3 houses down, who I only found out about as I was talking his wife next to one of the swarms last week.

I did get a cluster swarm reports about a km away in one direction, and another 2km in the other. I don't know of any ferals in close proximity to me. I would have got them if I'ld known!

The Merri Creek is known for swarms. Used to set lures and harvest a few years ago. Since the regreening of the Merri Creek banks there probably more lchance of swarms nowadays. Not that many k's from Coburg.